1. Finish shopping for S, who leaves for college in Charleston, SC, next weekend ( Read more... )

1. Get back on track with Emma - there's a Box Hill picnic to discuss, and I've put it off too long already.
2. Remind you that KidLit Con is open for registration. It will be held in Seattle this year (Sept. 16-17), with Scott Westerfeld as a keynote speaker. Some details are available at Colleen Mondor's blog, with information about registration ( Read more... )

Just a quick non-writing, non-reading sort of post at the moment - I'll get to today's chapter of Emma a bit later ( Read more... )

1. My yoga pants are too big. They were snug when purchased about seven weeks ago. They have not stretched out.

2. I am now a card-carrying member of the Romance Writers of America. Okay, so I don't actually have a card, but I got the emails confirming that I'm now a member. To quote Steve Martin's character in The Jerk, "Things are going to start ( Read more... )

According to U.K. Education Secretary Michael Gove, children should be reading 50 books a year in order to improve literacy standards. The Independent came up with a list of 50 books every child should read (suitable for Year 7 students, which is (I believe) equivalent to sixth grade in the U.S., and I figured I'd see how I fared. Of the 50 books ( Read more... )

1. Remind folks that the Kidlit 4 Japan auctions are ongoing. Thus far, over $2,000 has been raised for UNICEF. Quite a few items over there are at ridiculously low bids, however, so I hope that some of you looking for things like signed books, critiques, Skype visits for school or library groups, etc., will, y'know, go shopping ( Read more... )

1. Blog post about S&S, chapter the next.
2. Drive my parents to Baltimore.
3. Attend S's soccer game - it's senior/parent day.
4. Go hear Dan Maguire read poetry in Marlton, NJ at the Barnes & Noble on Rte. 70. (He's spectacular.)
5. Collapse


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I seriously have almost nothing for you today. *rummages around in bin of possible blog topics*

Let's see - I could tell you how very much I love Biffy Clyro's song, "Many of Horror", which is somewhere on the Charlie St. Cloud soundtrack. Not that it's easy to find that information because they haven't actually released a soundtrack, or even a ( Read more... )

1. Pot roast in Crock Pot. Under way. Last time I tried the "less time, higher heat" method and the meat was tough. Slow it is!

2. Use up overripe bananas in chocolate chip banana bread. Done. NOM!

3. Answer emails, etc. Done.

4. Pay a few bills. Under way.

5. Finish reading Mansfield Park. Dudes. I am a fast reader. Really and truly. It's the ( Read more... )

I am working hard to cross things off my to-do list, since I'm leaving early Saturday morning for New Hampshire.

Done today:1. Copies of handouts for my workshop at NESCBWI ( Read more... )